In this article Jonathon Blocker writes about dicom conversion.
Your medical facility may currently have a host of traditional medical equipment, which might include MRI and CT machines, as well as film x ray, mammography and ultrasound equipment. If you are in the process of making the transition to digital medical imagery, it can be a daunting prospect to replace all of the traditional equipment with digital imaging ones. There is a less expensive solution, however, that will allow you to acquire medical images from any modality, enabling you to then send, receive and archive those images. The solution is to use a dicom converter.
Once film images have been switched to digital through the use of a dicom conversion, you will have a great deal of flexibility with the images. When a dicom converter is used in conjunction with a PACS system, you will be able to view, send and receive digital medical images. You will also be able to archive according to HIPPA standards your medical digital files when you use a dicom conversion to reformat your film images to digital. Offsite backup to a database is also possible for disaster recovery when you take advantage of all that digital imaging has to offer with a dicom converter tool. The conversion tools can also help you stay within your budget, because you can use analog imaging modalities right along with your updated dicom units, so you can upgrade as your budget allows at a time that is right for you.
Dicom tools can also help you with storage of the medical images. Certain dicom conversion systems allow you to record the medical images from dicom to cd or dvd. Using the dicom to cd option allows for quick and easy backups to occur on a regular basis. Dicom to cd imaging is also available when a physician requires a hard copy of a medical image.
Dicom conversion also can happen for static and streamed images. You can use a scanner to scan hard copy film images, and then the dicom tools converts them to digital.
The dicom conversion process also works on digital images that need to be changed over to dicom. You can switch over JPG, BMP, PNG as well as AVI files to dicom files.
There are times when you will need to print out your digital images. Dicom tools make this commonly used process work. You can print images from dicom or Windows systems, adding to the ease with which the system works.
These converters also allow you to integrate your digital medical imagery into RIS systems. This means that medical text records can be saved in the same digital format, allowing them to be backed up dicom to cd or dvd as needed.
Conversion tools allow you make the switch to digital on your time schedule and within your budget.
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